Harold B. Hanson estate a gift to Telemiracle
Harold was born on the home farm Section 9, Township 6, Range 20 W3rd in the Brownville District, Saskatchewan on April 8, 1921, the second youngest of eight children to Lars Peder and Antonettie Hanson. He was in Grade 1 when Brownville School was first started in 1927. He went to Grade 8 before going to work with his father on the farm and helping other farmers in the community. He stayed at home looking after his mother until her passing. He continued farming until he retired in 2000 and moved into an apartment in Eastend.
Harold lived through the hard times in 1920s and 30s learning to repair and keep things in good shape. In later years was very inventive and utilized odd bits of machinery to build windmills, garden wagons, and numerous other projects, made bird houses out of a variety of objects but the most inventive was one out of a worn out dust buster hand vacuum. He repaired and fixed his clothing throughout the years on a hand operated sewing machine, when shirt buttons became too hard to do up; he cut the buttons off, sewed them on front of his shirts and inserted a long zipper underneath which was easy to do up. Harold was a member of the White Valley Lutheran Church. He celebrated his 95th birthday surrounded by a family, passing away five days later on April 13.
Harold was a kind, gentle man well loved by his 17 nieces and nephews. From the time they were little, he always made time to help them with anything, a project were doing, to play all kinds of games, go fishing, or skiing with them. They are so proud of this kind, generous man for leaving his estate to Telemiracle to help others!
The Kinsmen Foundation and Telemiracle thanks Harold Hanson for his generous donation of $463,000.00!